Buddy's Beat

Well, mom was right, she did in fact see blood on the snow yesterday when I was peeing. She got several samples from me and she took them to the vet appointment. Whereas my urine was clear just last Friday, today they found blood, and elevated nitrates and pH in all of them. That still points to an infection somewhere.

First off the vet checked my prostate. I did not like that one little bit. Oh the dogmanity of it all! Then I got sedated and had my bladder x-rayed and then I was catheterized and a sample was taken. Oh, I also had my anal glands expressed! The horror!!

Luckily the x-rayed showed that I didn't have any kidney or bladder stones, but my bladder does look swollen so I still have an infection in there. Everything else look good on the x-ray. Tee hee, even the mouse I ate this morning showed up on the x-ray! Yeah me!!

The urine sample will be sent for a culture and sensitivity and hopefully then we can get to bottom of things. It might just mean I need to be on antibiotics longer, or I need a different antibiotic all together or I might even have a fungal infection.

Tonight I start yet another round of antibiotics, but we feel we are finally getting a handle on this infection.

Barked by:Cathey U

October 25th 2012 at 5:20 pm

You got gone over good. Sure hope the vet can get this thing figured out Soon!

POP to you Buddy! Dang I hate when they can't find what the problem is. (can't find out why I've been limping for almost a year now either! BOO) Hope the antibiotics work this time for you to get you better FAST! :)

We are praying you'll lick this quickly,Buddy Boy!
Did you really eat a mouse??????????????????????
I've caught a few but I never had the chance to taste it....
Is it cold up there? cold here and flurries with no sunshine..
hugs and kisses,mazy